Olivia Manning
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began publishing shortly before the Second World War. She produced thirteen novels, as well as short stories and non-fiction including historical and topographical writing. Her best known works are her two highly praised trilogies of novels about Europe in the Second World War.
- BirthName: Olivia Mary ManningShe almost never used her second given name.
- Nickname: OllovThis was her family nickname: necessary in a family unit consisting of two Olivers and two Olivias.
- Married: Smith
- Pseudonyms: Jacob Morrow; O. M. ManningFor this earliest pseudonym she chose the first name from Jacob's Room to put with her mother's birth name.'sThis was her next, compromise pseudonym, initials because of a prejudice against women writers at that time.